Creating XMesh Loader From Existing Data

Introduction

• In this XMesh Saver MX Video Tutorial, a 321 frames sequence of an animated Biped was saved to disk, combining its 31 meshes into one.
• When the saving finished, an XMesh Loader was created automatically, including all necessary Material assignments.
• But in practice, sometimes it might be necessary to create a completely new XMesh Loader object from the existing data, and the material created by the XMesh Saver has to be assigned to the XMesh Loader.
• In the following Video Tutorial, we will look at the two possible ways to perform this - manually and automatically.

Creating An XMesh Loader From Existing Data Video Tutorial

The CREATE_XMesh_*_.MS File

• Here is the content of the MS file used in the video to recreate the XMesh Loader from the saved data:

      (
      local theXMeshLoader = XMeshLoader()
      local theXMeshLayer = LayerManager.getLayerFromName  "XMesh Loaders"
      if theXMeshLayer == undefined do theXMeshLayer = LayerManager.newLayerFromName "XMesh Loaders"
      theXMeshLayer.addnode theXMeshLoader
      theXMeshLoader.viewportSequenceID = 0
      theXMeshLoader.name = uniquename "XMesh_MultiWS31_"
      theXMeshLoader.enableViewportMesh = true
      theXMeshLoader.displayMode = 0
      theXMeshLoader.displayPercent = 5.0
      theXMeshLoader.limitToRange = true
      select theXMeshLoader
      theXMeshLoader.rangeFirstFrame = 0
      theXMeshLoader.rangeLastFrame = 320
      theXMeshLoader.viewportSequenceID = 0
      theXMeshLoader.proxySequence = ""
      theXMeshLoader.renderSequence = @"C:\Temp\xmeshes\XMESH_Biped_Bees_v001\Borislav\v0001\XMesh_MultiWS31_0000.xmesh"
      local theMatLibPath = @"C:\Temp\xmeshes\XMESH_Biped_Bees_v001\Borislav\v0001\XMesh_MultiWS31_.mat"
      if doesFileExist theMatLibPath do (
      local theMatLib = loadTempMaterialLibrary theMatLibPath
      if theMatLib != undefined do theXMeshLoader.material = theMatLib[1]
      )
      )